… World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: Over the past two decades, the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Community has immigrated … … Jerusalem … … 2009 … Ethiopian … Olivier Tourny … The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between …

… … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi … Vairu Shoterey Benei Yisrael Otam Ber'a …

… Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to Israel between November 1984 and early January 1985. In the … in the State of Israel. These religious leaders of the Beta Israel community were seasoned practitioners of the … erosion of the autochthonous liturgical practices of the Beta Israel. Under the initiative of Prof. Simha Arom ; the …

… Berta, a name she continued to use when she immigrated to Israel in 1979. In Istanbul, her husband worked in the …

… … 42 … 1 … 36677 … New York … … 1992 … Steven Kaplan … The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: from Earliest Times to the …

… of the Ethiopian Jews from their country of origin to Israel in the 1980’s and 1990’s has moved the hearts of … was set up in 1985 to document in detail the liturgy of Beta Israel (as the Ethiopian Jews refer to their community) … Tourny and Shoshana Ben Dor , expert on the liturgy of Beta Israel, joined this project.  The work was based on the …

… Ben-Dor is an important scholar of Ethiopian Jews in Israel since 1979. She studies the Ethiopian culture and … of the Ethiopian community. Ben-Dor is the director in Israel of North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry . See: The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer … …

… host society and also, inculcated with hegemonic values of Israeli citizenship. Meseret (“Tradition”), the brainchild … Operation Moses of 1984-5, when over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) were airlifted from refugee camps in Sudan—was … of my wish to conduct independent research among the Beta Israel community in Israel. In 1989, when I arrived in …

… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, CNRS, Paris-Jerusalem The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between … Norm and Creativity Over the past two decades, the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Community has immigrated …

… Masoretic Accents, a pioneering work then praised  by five Israel Prize laureates and published as The Masoretic Chant … experiment, the publication of a comparative study with Beta Israel material (Olivier Tourny, co-author) and …